Paper-file.



No. 704,935. Patented July I5, I902.

E. w. SANDSTEDT.

' i "'llllmi INVENTOH v ldzlzzzrzdwm PAPER FILE.

(Application filed Feb. 1

A TTORNE Y8 UNITE STATES 'P TENT OFFICE.

EDMUND WALFRID SANDSTEDT, or HANKOW, CHINA.

PAPE R-FlLE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 704,935, dated July 15, 1902. Application filed February 17, 1902. Serial No. 94,462. Clio model.)

To call whom it ntay concern.-

Be it known that I, EDMUND 'WALFRID SANDSTEDT, a citizen of the Kingdom of Sweden, and a resident of Hankow. China, have invented a new and Improved Paper-File, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact act description.

This invention relates to improvements in devices for holding files of newspapers, the object being to provide a device for this purpose that can be locked and opened with a key, that shall be light, yet strong, and having no projecting parts to damage the papers, scratch articles of furniture, or catch in the clothing to the inconvenience of the reader,

I will describe a paper-file embodying my invention and then point out the novel features in the appended claims.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which similar characters of reference indi cate corresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure 1 is a plan view, partly in section,

of a paper-file embodying my invention. Fig.

2 is a side view thereof. Fig. 3 isa section on the line a: so of Fig. 2, and Fig. 4 shows a modification.

The file comprises two rods or bars 1 2, designed to engage against opposite sides of the papers. At suitable points adjusting-screws connect the two rods or bars. As here shown, adj usting-screws 3 are arranged near the ends. Referring to Fig. 3, it will be seen that the. adjusting-screw 3 has a swivel connection with a plate 4, secured by screws to the bar or rod 2, and the thread of this screw engages in a tapped hole in a plate 5, attached to the bar 1. The said bar 1 is provided with an opening 6, into which a key 7 may pass to engage the angular end of the screw. This angular end is pointed, so that it may be readily forced through a newspaper. I' have shown the head of the screw 3 as engaging against the head of a screw 8 in the bar 2,

which prevents any lengthwise movement of the screw 3, but permits it to rotate freely. It is to be understood, however, that the said screw 3 may be otherwise connected to the plate a without departing from the spirit of my invention.

In operation when it is desired to separate the bars or rods the key is to be engaged with the screw at one end, and upon rotating the screw it will of course feed outward through the plate 5. Then the screw at the opposite end is to be turned to release it from its plate. When the threads are disengaged from the threads in the plates 5, a slight clicking noise will be board, which indicates such disengagement. When the parts are thus separated, the screws 3 maybe forced through the newspaper and then the rod or bar 1 again placed in position for engagement with the screws. r

In Fig. 4 I have shown an adjusting-screw 3 as having its opposite ends made angular to receive a key, and it is provided with a cured-to the plate 4:, thus permitting the screw to rotate, but preventing longitudinal movement thereof. By this construction the key may be passed into the opening of either bar to manipulate the screw. I

A paper-file embodying my invention, it will be noted, has no projecting parts liable to catch in clothing, and it cannot be opened without employing the key. Therefore it will in a great measure prevent an unauthorized person from removing papers from the file, at least without tearing them out.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent l. A paper-file comprising two bars or rods, screws having rotary connection with'one of the bars, and plates on the other of the bars and having tapped openings to receive the screws, the ends of the screws being made angular to receive a key the said ends being also pointed to puncture paper, substantially as specified.

2. A paper file, comprising two bars, a plate connected to one of the bars, a screw having swivel connection with said plate, a plate secured to the other of the bars and having a tapped opening to receive the screw, the said other bar also having an outward opening into which the screw may pass, the screw end being angular and pointed, and a key for engaging said angnlar portion of the screw, substantially as specified.

8. A paper-file comprising two bars or rods, a plate attached to one of the bars or rods, a fastening=screw extended through an opening collar 10, seated in a recess in a plate 12, se-

in said plate, ascrew in the bar against which In testimony whereof I have signed my the head of the first-named screw engages, a name to this specification in the presence of 10 plate attached to the other bar and having a two subscribing witnesses.

tapped opening to receive the adjustingscrew, the said other bar also having an open- EDMUND WMFRID SANDSTLDT' ing to receive the screw, and a key for eni WVitnesses: gaging with the screw, substantially as speci- HENRY MILLAR, fied. THEODORE STEPHENS. 

